Implementation of a peer support intervention to promote the detection, reporting and management of adverse drug reactions in people living with HIV in Uganda: a protocol for a quasi-experimental study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Patients have contributed <1% of spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports in Uganda's pharmacovigilance database. Peer support combined with mobile technologies could empower people living with HIV (PLHIV) to report ADRs and improve ADR management through linkage to care. We seek to test the feasibility and effect of a peer support intervention on ADR reporting by PLHIV receiving combination antiretroviral therapy (cART) in Uganda; identify barriers and facilitators to the intervention; and characterise ADR reporting and management.

Methods and analysis

This is a quasi-experimental study to be implemented over 4 months at 12 intervention and 12 comparison cART sites from four geographical regions of Uganda. Per region, two blocks each with a tertiary, sec

SUBMITTER: Kiguba R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9121495 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature